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Short articles on art from the 1960s and 1970s; Modern British Prints and Brutalist Art and Design
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Walter Hoyle
Walter Hoyle was another one of those artists that settled in and around Great Bardfield. He was born in 1922 and after the Beckenham...
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Jan 20, 20211 min read
Bernard Cheese
Cheese was born in 1925. He initially studied at Beckenham School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art. Edward Bawden and Edwin...
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Jan 20, 20212 min read
Plaster Lamp Base
This lamp base has been modelled as a rather randomly stacked pile of natural stones. It is made of plaster but the designer has put in a...
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Jan 18, 20211 min read
Ron King
Born in Brazil in 1932, Ronald (Ron) King first moved to the UK in 1945 where he attended Ardingly College followed by the Chelsea School...
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Jan 16, 20211 min read
Metal Wall Sculpture, Anonymous
A lot of brutalist art is unsigned and the reason for this is probably that their work was not necessarily regarded as art but instead...
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Jan 11, 20212 min read
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Jan 10, 20210 min read
Edwin La Dell
Born in 1914, La Dell studied at the Sheffield School of Art and later under John Nash at the Royal College of Art. There he became head...
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Jan 10, 20211 min read
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Jan 9, 20210 min read
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Jan 8, 20210 min read
Car Park Frieze I
Great bit of ultra simple brutalist artwork. Abstract concrete blocks set in the wall.
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Jan 8, 20211 min read
Nicholas Barnham
Barnham was born in 1939 and studied at Norwich School of Art. He was a teacher at Cambridge School of Art and makes beautiful prints and...
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Jan 8, 20211 min read
Graham Clarke
Born in 1941, Graham Clarke initially studied at the Beckenham Art School and later at the Royal College of Art where among others Edward...
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Jan 7, 20212 min read
Ron Hitchins
Born in London in 1926, Ron Hitchins moved to Hackney aged 13 and started a market stall selling very brightly coloured shirts that he...
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Jan 6, 20212 min read
Francis Kelly
Francis Robert Kelly was born in Minnesota in 1927. After a brief career in the US Navy he studied art in Los Angeles, Honolulu and...
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Jan 3, 20212 min read
Geoffrey Elliott
Geoffrey Elliott is a relatively little-known British artist and that is a pity as his wonderfully coloured lithographs are great...
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Jan 3, 20212 min read
Pierre Noël Martin
Pierre Noël Martin (French 1951-2006) is a relatively unknown artist. He was French but lived and worked in London. Most works by him...
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Jan 2, 20212 min read
Pentti Sarpaneva
This is a lovely bronze candlestick designed by Pentti Sarpaneva (1925-1978) for Finnish Jeweler Turun Hopea Oy. Sarpaneva studied in...
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Jan 1, 20212 min read
Brutalist Pin Tray
Today a very humble little item. I came across this little pin tray recently and just had to have it. It’s a small simple metal dish but...
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Dec 30, 20201 min read
Sheila Robinson
The influence of Edward Bawden is clear in the work of Sheila Robinson (1925-1988). After studying at Nottingham Art School she was a...
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Dec 28, 20201 min read
Stanley William Hayter
It is difficult to overstate the importance of Stanley William Hayter as a printmaker. His famous Atelier 17, founded in Paris in 1927,...
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Dec 26, 20202 min read
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